1 minute ago, sightseer said:

While trees may be too big in some places, I also think that the buildings are too small.  Compare the building heights to the width of the runway in @RudyB24 s  shots above.  (and I really think we should have actual approach photos and not Google Earth)

Or alternately, we could simply be too accustomed to the giant buildings in ESP-based sims.

10 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

Or alternately, we could simply be too accustomed to the giant buildings in ESP-based sims.

I was only comparing the Google Earth shot to the MSFS shot.

and for everyone looking for smaller autogen, XPlane has gone TOO far.  XPs autogen is TOO SMALL.

Edited June 28, 20205 yr by sightseer

1 minute ago, sightseer said:

I was only comparing the Google Earth shot to the MSFS shot.

Apologies.

In that case, I don't really see a difference at all in those pictures, just a different viewing angle.

Perhaps others will weigh in.

I'll go with @HiFlyer. I don't see much of a difference and the (even though slightly) different angle and the different lighting I think may play a trick on perception. MSFS also uses height data for many buildings so I would think they are correct.

12 hours ago, lambourne said:

potential difficulties with AI recognition of trees and ground shrubs from 2D aerial photos

I'm no AI and I can say with supreme confidence that I would also struggle in gauging how tall a tree is from an aerial image.

All I know is, as soon as the SDK/world editing tools are available I've got some pruning to do around my local airport, then it'll be perfect.

20 hours ago, RudyB24 said:

Spot the seven differences

Well, the obvious one is the grossly exaggerated tree size in MSFS2020. 🙄🙊

8 hours ago, suncoastflyer said:

'm no AI and I can say with supreme confidence that I would also struggle in gauging how tall a tree is from an aerial image.

The AI just needs to use "average" tree height, because 95% of the worlds trees are just "average"...  The problem is it seems to think "average" trees are 10 storeys tall.

Edited June 29, 20205 yr by MatthewS

“Or maybe London is not available in 3D in Bing?”

“It isn’t.”

That’s a pity. MS should have partnered with Google. 🙂

Just a thought. While in many cases competition can bring progress, it often also leads to waste. I mean … how many companies are busy picturing the globe? Google, Apple, Microsoft and probably several others … they all have to acquire satellite data and they all send planes or drones in the air to picture and 3D model entire cities and they drive cars around to create 'street view' ... all separately and on their own. How much money and resources could be saved if they combine their efforts and have one enterprise to 3D model Earth?

16 minutes ago, RudyB24 said:

“Or maybe London is not available in 3D in Bing?”

“It isn’t.”

That’s a pity. MS should have partnered with Google. 🙂

Just a thought. While in many cases competition can bring progress, it often also leads to waste. I mean … how many companies are busy picturing the globe? Google, Apple, Microsoft and probably several others … they all have to acquire satellite data and they all send planes or drones in the air to picture and 3D model entire cities and they drive cars around to create 'street view' ... all separately and on their own. How much money and resources could be saved if they combine their efforts and have one enterprise to 3D model Earth?

You are, no doubt aware, that Microsoft owns Bing? Why spend additional funds, & it will be huge, to satisfy a bunch of gamers/simmers, when you own a global streaming system!

Your last sentence: read what you have written, sit back & think about it... companies combining their resources, when they have different markets? Do they need to combine? Not!

Yes I know Bing = Microsoft.

You don't consider it waste when three air planes, hired or paid by three different companies, are flying around in a grid to make aerial pictures of a city, while one plane would suffice?

Why do we need 73 different worldwide design departments for cars, while we all could drive a black Ford 🙂 ... then the 72 other design departments could put their resources on designing other great things? Sometimes a bit more cooperation between companies can be fruitful and beneficial. Like ... we could have had London in 3D by now.

 

🙂

Edited June 29, 20205 yr by RudyB24

Nope, different companies have different ideas/targets in collecting data..

Is it a waste when you have different companies providing a car rental business, a car hailing business, Coke not buying out Pepsi,? 

Why don't toothpaste companies join up? Is it a waste that companies like Google, Mozilla, Brave are spending money developing something similar?

 

 

11 minutes ago, RudyB24 said:

Of course I know Bing = Microsoft.

You don't consider it waste when three air planes, hired or paid by three different companies, are flying around in a grid to make aerial pictures of a city, while one plane would suffice?

And why do we need 73 different worldwide design departments for cars ... while we all could drive a black Ford? 🙂

Sounds like Communism to me.

On 6/25/2020 at 7:58 PM, ChaoticBeauty said:

Screenshot by Ebbsy2

 

We've seen screenshots with fields fully covered with 3D grass. Here it's only partially.

Do you think that's a detail setting or depends on terrain?

Well ... almost every day I see these trucks in my street. First there is PostNL delivering a packet at one or two addresses. Then there's DPD, then UPC, end then we still have some others (I bet in the USA you see similar things with UPC, Fedex, Amazon and what have you). Then the different supermarkets do their deliveries. Every day 5 or 6 trucks of different companies all visit one or two addresses. In my eyes this is waste ... if they work better together one truck can do the whole street ... I don't call that communism ... I call it save the planet from an excess of CO2.

Edited June 29, 20205 yr by RudyB24

Would you prefer a single delivery company delivering to a single supermarket? Why have different supermarkets, when one will do? That will save the planet, salaries, employment....  a single car brand.. imagine the Co2 saving there.